club /klub/

1. A heavy tapering stick, knobby or thick at one end, used to strike with
2. A cudgel
3. An Indian club (qv)
4. A bat used in certain games
5. An instrument for playing golf, with a metal or wooden head on the end of a thin metal shaft
6. A playing card with black trefoil pips
7. A combination, bunch
8. A clique, set
9. An association of persons for social, political, athletic or other ends
10. An association of persons who possess premises or facilities which all members may use
11. A clubhouse, or the premises occupied by a club
12. A nightclub

1. To beat with a club
2. To use a heavy object as a club
3. To throw into confusion (military)
4. To gather into a bunch
5. To combine

1. (esp with together) to join together for some common end
2. To combine together
3. To share in a common expense
4. To visit nightclubs

clubbabilˈity or clubabilˈity noun

clubbˈable or clubˈable adjective

Sociable

clubbed adjective

Enlarged at the end like a club

clubbˈer noun

A person who frequents nightclubs

clubbˈing noun

1. Beating
2. Combination
3. A thickening, as of finger-ends, or of cabbage-stems attacked by insect larvae
4. The frequenting of nightclubs

clubbˈish adjective

Given to clubs

clubbˈism noun

The club system

clubbˈist noun

A clubman

clubbˈy adjective

1. Characteristic of a club
2. Sociable
3. Exclusive, cliquey

clubs singular noun see clumps under clump

club class noun

A class of seat on an aircraft between tourist class and first class

club deal noun (finance)

A takeover by a group of private equity companies working as a syndicate

clubˈ-face noun

The face of a golf club

club foot noun

A deformed foot

club-footˈed adjective

clubˈ-haul transitive verb (nautical)

To tack, esp in an emergency, by dropping the lee anchor and hauling in the anchor cable to bring the stern of the boat to windward

clubˈhead noun

The head of a golf club

clubˈ-headˈed adjective

Having a thick head

clubˈhouse noun

A house for the accommodation of a club

clubˈland noun

1. The area around St James's in London, where many of the old-established clubs are
2. An area or region containing a large number of nightclubs or working-men's clubs

clubˈ-law noun

Government by violence

clubˈ-line noun (printing)

A short line at the end of a paragraph, an orphan

clubˈman noun

1. A member of a club or clubs
2. A frequenter of clubs, a man-about-town

clubˈmanship noun

clubˈmaster noun

The manager of, or purveyor for, a club

club moss noun

Any primitive plant of the family Lycopodiaceae, allied to the ferns, typically having small overlapping leaves and creeping stems

clubˈroom noun

The room in which a club meets

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